The Delta independent., 1887-04-12
TELEGRAPH BREVTTIES.

State Commerce bill applies to express
companies.
Miss Catharine Wolfe, of New York,
who was well known for her charitable
deeds, is dead.
There is some talk of the President
making the trip to the Pacific coast during
the coming summer.
The Jersey peach-growers say that
the crop of the coming year will be the
heaviest known for years.
A gigantic naptha fountain burst
forth at Baku, Russia, throwing sand, oil
and rocks to the height of $50 feet
A statue of Albert Sidney johnson
was unveiled in New Orleans on the 9Th.
JEFF Davis made the principal address.
Nearly 1,1OO carpenters are on
strike in Cincinnati. They demand nine
hours and q. so per day with eight hours on
Saturday.
1t is reported that previous to the
new law the Pennsylvania railrosd had out
60,000 annual passes.
The newly elected city officials of Al
buquerque are pledged to promote the con-
struction of the Albuquerque & Durango
Railroad.
The coal miners throughout the East
are discussing the formation Of a new
union which will bring them all under a
common jurisdiction.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed
a bill which provides that the punishment
for murder in the first degree may be death
by the use Of electricity.
Sixty men lynched three negroes at
Yorkville, South Carolina, for the brutal
murder Of q young white lad who had a
knowledge of their crimes.
Six men were terribly burned at the
Edgar Thompson Steel works, near Pitts
burg, by an explosion of molten metal in
the converting department..
The will of the late Wilbur F. Storey.
which was executed in 1881, has been pro-
nounced invalid, and the will dated August
l6, 1879, has been filed for probate.
J. j. Cornelson is in Jail at Mt. Ster-
ling, Kentucky, for having horsewhipped
Judge Reid. The latter felt the disgrace so
keenly that he committed suicide.
The Lieutenants of Police in Phila-
delphia have orders to suppress gambling
of all kinds, prize fighting or sparring for
points and Sunday liquor-selling.
E. NJ. Smith. an employe at the Paw
nee, Ponca and Otoe Agency in the Indian
Territory, was shot dead by Indian Agent
Osborne, whom he threatened to kill.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada during March amounted to $lo,-
45O, 900. This is sS,00c, ,ooc above the aver
age for that month for a dozen years past
The anti-polygamous Mormons are
holding conference at Kirkland, Ohio.
They claim q membership of 19, ,s36, of
which the largest number, 4,ss7, are in
Iowa.
The theatrical people who feel the
operations of the Interstate Commerce law
keenly, held meeting in Chicago and Sc
lected committee of ten to seek relief for
them.
A resident of Atacosa county, Texas,
has reached San Antonio with the report
that the people in his county are suffering
terribly from the drouth. They are hauling
water ten miles.
Some New England fishermen writ
ing to the President asked for the applica-
ton of the retaliatory law to Canadian fish
alone, but the President says, If applied,
the law must be general.
The Wyoming veterinarians report
shows that 75,ooO cattle have been in
spected in the quarantine yards at Chey
enne during the past year. No contagious
disease exists among Wyoming cattle at the
present time.
Patrick Mccarthy was hanged at
in February, 1886. He was the sixty-sixth
man to be executed there in twelve years
and they still have twenty-four murderers
in prison there.
William and Joseph Warford, two
brothers, had an alteration at their home
fourteen miles south of Springfield, H.,
concerning horse. William drew re-
volver and shot Joseph, breaking his arm.
He then went to his room and shot himself
through the heart
Commissioner Sparks has notified
Special Agent Downey in Montana that
there must be no interference with the
settlers for taking from the public lands
what wood and timber may be necessary
for their family and settlement uses, but
the special agents are expected to devote
their time and energies to the prevention
Of timber depredations upon large scale
by mill-men and corporations.
| A Marquette. Mich. dispatch says
there Is great excitement all over the North
ern Michigan peninsula over alleged fraud
In the recent election which places in
doubt the fats Of the prohibitory amend.
ment, The lronwood authorities are re-
reported to have sought legal advice, II be-
ing charged that voters by the hundred
were imported from Wisconsin to vote
against the amendment. The frauds ara
all alleged to have occurred In Gogebee
county, and that the most Wholesale fraud
was carried ON there seems apparent